Benchmarking: Can AppServer Beat Symfony’s Performance?
Scott revisits Appserver and benchmarks it against Symfony to dispel the rumors of bas performance. Does he succeed? Tune in to find out!
Performance & Scaling
Containerized PHP Development Environments with Vagga
Parham dives into Vagga - a lightweight alternative to Docker useful for containerized development environments - and builds a PHP environment!
Running an Elastic LAMP Stack on AWS
Daniel goes through the simple process of setting up a powerful LAMP stack on AWS with Zend Server, for high traffic cloud-safe web applications!
Glide: Easy Dynamic on-Demand Image Resizing
Let's take a look at Glide - an image manipulation library for easy dynamic on-demand image resizing for all the screen sizes!
Websockets in Your Synchronous Site
Chris introduces Socketize, a "sockets-as-a-service" layer that helps you implement websockets into apps with zero overhead, then adds them to a PHP script!
Appserver – Server Configuration, Dir Structure and Threads
Scott revisits Appserver and teaches you how to set up an example application with a custom virtual server. Your apps have never been this fast!
Can PHP Be Even Faster? Light-Speed with the Blink Framework
Younes writes an entire Notejam app from scratch in this in-depth tutorial and analysis of the high-speed Blink framework
An In-depth Walkthrough of Supercharging Apps with Blackfire
M. Lavaryen explains the Blackfire profiler in depth and demonstrates its use on a simple script, laying the groundwork for further exploration on your end!
Easy Continuous Delivery with ContinuousPHP and Zend Server
Daniel Berman presents a dead easy way of doing continuous delivery (integration + deployment) with the power of ContinuousPHP and Zend Server
Using the RulerZ Rule Engine to Smarten up Playlist Building
Christopher Pitt shows us how we can use RulerZ, the PHP rule engine, to smarten up playlist song selection by applying constraints and filters!
Memory Performance Boosts with Generators and Nikic/Iter
Christopher Pitt re-introduces generators on a practical demo by reading and writing large CSV files while using very little memory.
Docker and Dockerfiles Made Easy!
Docker Explained! Younes goes through the process of building a sample Laravel + MySQL app powered by two docker containers - check it out!
Debugging WordPress on Azure with Z-Ray
Daniel Berman from Zend walks you through using Z-Ray to optimize your WordPress apps hosted on Microsoft's cloud hosting - Azure.
Flexible and Easily Maintainable Laravel + Angular Material Apps
Jad builds a Laravel + Angular skeleton app that's designed to be highly team-scalable - meaning easily extensible and adaptable to new devs on the team!
Build a Superfast PHP Server in Minutes with Icicle
Christopher Pitt goes through the process of building an extremely fast asynchronous PHP application server with Icicle and some League libraries - amazing!
An Introduction into Event Loops in PHP
Christopher Pitt introduces event loops - non-blocking async calls in PHP code, akin to Javascript. Can event loops breathe new life into PHP's performance?
First Look at Yahoo’s MySQL Performance Analyzer
Here's a look at Yahoo's MySQL performance analyzer - we go through its options, from graphs to alerts. It's getting ever easier to speed up your DBs!
Appserver – a Production-Ready PHP-Based Server
Scott Molinari introduces Appserver.io - a full-stack PHP environment with a multi-threaded production-ready PHP-based server!
Introduction to Elasticsearch in PHP
Wern Ancheta goes through a bare-bones introduction to Elasticsearch, the amazingly fast search engine you can populate with custom data and use with PHP.
Speeding up Existing Apps with a Redis Cache
In this tutorial, Bruno implements a Redis cache into an existing application - learn how you can speed up your apps by many factors in just minutes!
Caching Hat-trick: Varnish, Memcached and PHP libraries
Wern Ancheta goes through another set of common caching techniques in PHP: Varnish, Memcached and libraries like Doctrine Cache and Stash
Caching Hat-trick: Zend Opcache, Etags and Query Caching
Wern Ancheta covers three common approaches to caching in PHP: Zend Opcache, Query Caching and Expires Headers.
Crawling and Searching Entire Domains with Diffbot
Bruno Skvorc introduces Diffbot's crawling and searching functionality as he crawls the entire SitePoint.com domain in one go, and then queries the data.
The Best PHP Framework for 2015: SitePoint Survey Results
The survey is complete and the data has been crunched - which framework is the most popular PHP framework of 2015? Tune in to find out.
Welcoming New Authors: January – March 2015
In the first three months of 2015, we've gained four new authors and two got "regular" status. Want to join our work-from-home army? Read the post!
Building APIs You Won’t Hate: Review
Phil Sturgeon's book "Build APIs You Won't Hate" promises to teach you best practices in API design. We've reviewed it, and this is the verdict.
Grumpy Programmer’s Testing Bundle: Review
Bruno Skvorc reviews the grumpy programmer's guide to building testable applications and the PHPUnit testing cookbook. Should you buy them? Read to find out
The PHP 7 Revolution: Return Types and Removed Artifacts
PHP 7 is well on its way, and some of the changes are upsetting a wide range of people. Do you endorse PHP 7's direction, or are you one to condemn it?
Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP: Review
Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP is a book that promises to help you bring ancient horrible projects up to speed. Does it? Find out in this review!
PHP Tips, Resources and Best Practices for 2015
This post by Bruno Skvorc will list highly effective tips, resources and best practices for keeping your PHP projects secure, fast and awesome.